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Let me ask this... Why the fuck is NSA collecting data on US citizens. I understand if the FBI was but the NSA?

"The National Security Agency (NSA) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and information systems,[5] which involves information security and cryptanalysis/cryptography."
"By law,[citation needed] NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications, although there have been some incidents involving domestic collection, including the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

The NSA doesn't have authority (unless it was passed in Patriot Act or other bs bill) to collect data on US citizen. So this huge data center is collecting data on US citizens along with foreing communications. I would expect this to be a FBI program not NSA. This would be like the CIA operating inside US boundaries which they aren't supposed to. All data collected on US citizens should be purged or given to FBI. They are obviously over stepping their boundaries. Collecting data on US citizens that aren't communicating with anyone foreign belongs to the FBI. I suppose they might state that all internet activity can be monitored by them because it has potential for being foreign communication (aka forum on website that has people from all over the world).